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The European Commission has been accused of dragging its feet to avoid inflaming Donald Trump’s trade war.

As digital enforcement kicks in, a high-profile investigation into Elon Musk’s X is still open.

Plans are being drawn up and, as one EU diplomat said, “We’ll take decisions to protect ourselves.”

“The European Commission is attempting to handicap successful American businesses,” blasts top US lobbyist.

There are major hurdles to overcome for the EU to retaliate against U.S. digital companies.

Stretched resources and patchy communication leave experts warning a ban on personal meat and cheese imports could fall well short of its aims.

It was a week when penguins, bonds, the new German coalition, Louisiana soybeans, fossil fuels, the EU’s Digital Markets Act, France’s creaking politics and American bourbon all became one news story. POLITICO explains what got us all yippy.

The bloc’s Digital Markets Act is about compliance, not fines, says Olivier Guersent.

Greenland did not invite an American delegation to come visit this week, the self-ruling island’s government said Monday, flatly denying a claim made by President Donald Trump. …

Kyiv is trying to hang on to the territory it holds inside Russia despite fierce counterattacks by Moscow’s military.

Federal Communications Commission chair warns that the EU’s Digital Services Act threatens censorship that is “incompatible” with U.S. free speech.

Ukraine’s supporters defend Kyiv against the U.S. president’s in-person attack, while detractors say he got what he deserved.

Keep calm and carry on? Nah — everybody panic, Edgars Rinkēvičs advises.

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.

The U.S. vice president attacked Europe’s regulations governing American Big Tech giants and online speech.

The bogus handle has since been deleted, but Myriam Spiteri Debono’s real account still doesn’t have a gray tick.

Joel Kaplan told a Brussels Meta event that the approach Brussels is taking to tech resembles “a tax or a tariff.”

Green lawmakers claim the U.S. president’s son shot a rare duck in an EU conservation zone.

Social media companies including TikTok, Meta and X took part in an election stress test on Friday.

Fake accounts attempted to fan discontent as people raged against establishment figures following floods in the Valencia region that killed more than 200 people.

Meta’s move to ditch fact-checking put a target on the back of fake-news fighters, they warn.

Josip Dabro apologized for his actions which he called “the result of a moment of thoughtlessness.”

Pollution in EU cities, while slowly improving, is still killing more than a quarter million people each year, a new report finds.